One of the roles of the shaman is to shift energy and form. Shifting the shape of energy whether it be the energy comprising of people, objects, cultures, etc... is something that the shaman does from within. How each shaman does it is a matter of personal process, but working with energy and rerouting it in a way that affects material reality is what the shaman has always done.
We change the world through working with energy.
A popular conception of this idea has been the changing of the corporation through infiltrating its culture. Getting shamans inside corporations and changing the corporations culture or relationship to the outside world and market.... well that is how modern shamans may affect this society.
Shamans can serve mother earth but they can also work with manufactured energies. There are chemical shamans some of whom are toxic and others that may not be. Some shamans are more practical than others and may not give the conceptual framework behind the magick that they weave.
Others observe the weaving of the energies and get a better conceptual idea of their place in the world. Some wiccans will be shamans though not all shamans are wiccans. Shamans exist in all cultures just as energy exists in all cultures.
It is very difficult for a shaman in acctive addiction to function as a shaman though all shamans should get sick early in their development. This initial sickness or wound, the shaman initiates by healing themself from
Is existentialism the core philosophy of shamanism ? - I mean given this notion of reality selection. So the shaman's process is to open his chest of tools and select one to applying meaning to the world around him.
ReplyDeleteThe end result of this process often becomes absurdity I believe.
The model of reality selection attempts to crub this by suggesting a scientific process you could use for manipulating reality. i.e. follow these steps and you will get this result.
So in some way Alli's work is paradoxical in this sense. Or it kind of leads towards science.